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Our people have always been at the forefront of innovation and our past achievements inspire our current world changers.
1451: The University is established
1776: ADAM SMITH publishes The Wealth of Nations
1848: Lord Kelvin proposes an absolute temperature scale, now called the Kelvin scale
1867: Joseph Lister introduces antiseptic in surgery
1894: Marion Gilchrist is the first woman in Scotland to graduate in Medicine
1896: John Macintyre opens the world’s first X-ray department
1913: Nobel Prizewinner Frederick Soddy discovers isotopes
1926: John Logie Baird invents television
1958: Ian Donald shows us the first ultrasound image of a foetus
1967: Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers radio pulsars
1974: Graham Teasdale and Bryan Jennett create the Glasgow Coma Scale
1999: Donald Dewar becomes the inaugural First Minister of Scotland
2004: Edwin Morgan becomes Scotland’s first national poet
2015: Sheila Rowan leads the Glasgow team that first detected gravitational waves
